Atmospheric analysis

We have reached the end of our sampling program up in the Kermadecs and we’re on our way home

Warm nor’westers, or foehn winds, are forecast for parts of the eastern South Island tomorrow and Wednesday, before spreading to the east of the North Island from Wednesday into Thursday.

For the last couple of days we have been sampling near L’Esperance Rock.

The Kermadec Expedition team are currently trying to answer this question with the help of our DTIS tool (deepwater camera system), but it is not always smooth sailing at the bottom of the ocean...

This week's update describing soil moisture across the country to help assess whether severely to extremely dry conditions are occurring or imminent.

Here is an insight into what Auckland University’s whale research team is up to in The Kermadecs.

Over the last few days the “dive team” have been recording corals, fishes, urchins and other invertebrates from the shallow waters (0-30m) surrounding Raoul Island to complement the biodiversity records from the deeper ocean collected by the other scientists onboard.

A weekly update describing soil moisture across the country to help assess whether severely to extremely dry conditions are occurring or imminent.

The giant sea slater Bathynomus giganteus A. Milne Edwards, 1879 is an abundant isopod species of massive size from the family Cirolanidae.

A tape measure and a drill will be pretty much all the tools a NIWA scientist needs when he heads to Antarctica next week.